A critical overview of latest challenges and solutions of Mobile Cloud Computing

The unabated plethora of research activities to augment multifarious mobile devices by leveraging cloud resources have created new research field called Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC). Recently, researchers have found Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) to be a promising venture combining the advantage of both the cloud and mobility in giving users available resources on the cloud wherever they are using their mobile phone. Despite its benefits, many challenges still remain with MCC. This paper addressed recent challenges ranging from limited computational capacity, connectivity, security, latency, and heterogeneity. Solutions for these challenges are suggested including mobile processes offloading, using HTML5 technologies to compensate for connectivity loss, SDN centralized control features for data security, utilizing the cloud for time consuming applications, and using cross platform applications neutralizes heterogeneous technologies. Finally, the paper concludes with an extracted list of new research idea for scholars to work on to further enhance MCC.